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Integrated Systems: Robotics

  1. A robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
- Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics

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IT Concepts

  • Input devices eg camera, sensors, microphones
  • Output devices eg claws, wheels, motors, relays, speakers
  • Robot, android, cyborg
  • Sensors eg heat, proximity, magnetism, light, humidity, pH

Social and Ethical Issues:

  • Effects of replacing people in with robots in the workplace (social and economic)
  • Using robots in situations that might endanger human beings: ethical decisions
  • Social impact of human interaction with robots: artifical pets, robots for the disabled and elderly
  • Robots in medicine: robotic surgery, computer-controlled prostheses (social impact and ethical considerations)
  • Reliability of robotic devices, particularly in life-threatening situations

Knowledge of Technology:

  • Key terms: robot, android, cyborg, sensors, humanoid
  • Determining situations where it is more appropriate to use a robot than a human being
  • Inpot and Output peripherals e.g. arms, fingers, voice, wheels
  • Robot design: reasons for/for not having androids
  • Robot capabilities and limitations: vision, touch, sound and movement, processing power

Tasks

Robots: space exploration and travel: Javier
Read the resources given here and find at least two more of your own that are more current. Consider the social and ethical issues to do with using robots to explore and travel in space. Discuss three issues and weigh up your answers in a summary paragraph(s). See How to Discuss and Weigh up an Issue, including IB rubric to assess SL, HL, paper 1 part (c) and paper 3 Q3

Robots: Home - Javier


Robots: Industry - Alic
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Robots: Warfare: Alic
"When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to it's mother" (PW Singer). Explore the use of robots in warfare. Discuss three issues and weigh up your answers in a summary paragraph(s). See How to Discuss and Weigh up an Issue, including IB rubric to assess SL, HL, paper 1 part (c) and paper 3 Q3

Robotics Resources


Types of Robots

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healthcare, domestic, military defense, space travel, and manufacturing, household

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ASIMO Video: Taken at Disneyworld July 2004 by Julie Lindsay
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Articles

  • Robots could sense shapes with whiskers
  • Robots take orders in restaurant: A restaurant in China is proving a big hit with customers, and it's not just because of the food being dished up. Instead it's the way the food is being served that's filling chairs and tables with hungry people, with robots replacing waiters and waitresses. The robot shows customers to their tables, they place their order into his microphone and their food is cooked. At the moment the robot hands over to a person to make the meals, but in future robot chefs could be in the kitchen. Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6030000/newsid_6035600/6035633.stm
  • Robots and androids are employed as receptionists and porters at a Japanese hospital
  • Mini Robots treat ailments from the inside
  • Walking robot steps up the pace: A humanoid robot is teaching itself to walk and eventually run around a California research lab.

Online Videos

Robotics introduces its most human-like robot to date
The future of humanoid robotics has arrived with the introduction of Robosapien™ V2 - the ultimate entertainment humanoid from WowWee



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